The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the
Church of England and used throughout the
Anglican Communion. The first book, published in 1549 , in the reign of
Edward VI, was a product of the
English Reformation following the breach with
Rome. Prayer books, unlike books of prayers, contain the words of structured (or
liturgical) services of worship. The work of 1549 was the first prayer book to contain the forms of service for daily and Sunday worship in English and to do so within a single volume; it included
morning prayer,
evening prayer, the
Litany, and
Holy Communion. The book included the other occasional services in full: the orders for
baptism,
confirmation,
marriage, '
prayers to be said with the sick' and a
funeral service. It set out in full the
Epistle and
Gospel readings for the Sunday Communion Service. Set
Old Testament and
New Testament readings for daily prayer were specified in tabular format as were the set
Psalms; and
canticles, mostly biblical, that were provided to be sung between the readings .
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